ABSTRACT
A large proportion of low-skilled migrant workers use the personalised transport industry (such as taxis, limousines and ridesourcing) as an entry point into labour markets. This chapter explores the nexus of migrant masculinities, work and digital labour platforms (DLPs). Highlighting the ways in which DLPs capitalise on the precarity of migrant populations to exploit them for cheap labour, it draws on research from Uber driver-partners in south-east Queensland to illustrate how the platform both capitalises on migrant populations and serves as a valuable mechanism to validate migrant male masculinity. The chapter demonstrates how migrant men are able to construct a masculinity which is culturally validated in their communities as well as in mainstream Australian society. It presents three case studies to illustrate how masculinity is performed in a way that fosters unique hybrid identities.
